12-19-2008, 06:34 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A better name could have been "telugu-desham" for this state.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
dEsam is usually used to mean a separate country in Telugu, naadu would be the more appropriate term and is used for both a separate country and a certain region as in palnaadu. So Telugunaadu would have been the most appropriate term.
dEsam is usually used to mean a separate country in Telugu, naadu would be the more appropriate term and is used for both a separate country and a certain region as in palnaadu. So Telugunaadu would have been the most appropriate term.

